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Tops Gallery is pleased to present In the Hands of a Poet an exhibition of Kenneth Lawrence Beaudoin’s Eye-Poems.
In the 1940’s the poet Kenneth Beaudoin (1913-1995) was living in Manhattan where he operated Galerie Neuf and was publishing a literary and art magazine called Iconograph. At some point in the 1940’s his own poetry began to break from traditional lyricism to a more experimental form of collaged works that he termed Eye-Poems. In these works, words and images were cut out of magazines and combined in a way that put the form of the collage and the linguistic content on an equal footing. Beaudoin’s use of the found word rather than the conceived word led to verse that was more obscure while the handmade nature of the works gave them an intimate quality.
By the early 1950’s Beaudoin had returned to Memphis where he had previously attended the West Tennessee State Teachers College, (University of...More
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Tops Gallery is pleased to present In the Hands of a Poet an exhibition of Kenneth Lawrence Beaudoin’s Eye-Poems.
In the 1940’s the poet Kenneth Beaudoin (1913-1995) was living in Manhattan where he operated Galerie Neuf and was publishing a literary and art magazine called Iconograph. At some point in the 1940’s his own poetry began to break from traditional lyricism to a more experimental form of collaged works that he termed Eye-Poems. In these works, words and images were cut out of magazines and combined in a way that put the form of the collage and the linguistic content on an equal footing. Beaudoin’s use of the found word rather than the conceived word led to verse that was more obscure while the handmade nature of the works gave them an intimate quality.
By the early 1950’s Beaudoin had returned to Memphis where he had previously attended the West Tennessee State Teachers College, (University of...More
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